Making an American festival : Chinese New Year in San Francisco's Chinatown / [electronic resource]
Yeh, Chiou-ling,1967-
Berkeley, Calif. ; London : University of California Press,
2008.
This provocative history of the largest annual Chinese celebration in the United States - the Chinese New Year parade and beauty pageant in San Francisco - opens a window onto the evolution of one Chinese American community over the second half of the 20th century.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-295) and index.
Making multicultural America : Cold War politics, ethnic celebrations, and Chinese America -- Transnational celebrations in changing political climates -- "In the traditions of China and in the freedom of America" : the making of the Chinese New Year festival -- Constructing a "model minority" identity : the Miss Chinatown U.S.A. beauty pageant -- Yellow power : race, class, gender, and activism -- Heated debate on the ethnic beauty pageant -- Hybridity in culture, memory, and politics -- Selling Chineseness and marketing Chinese New Year : corporate sponsorship, television broadcasts, and counter memory -- "We are one family" : queerness, transnationalism, and identity politics -- Post-Cold War celebrations.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
This provocative history of the largest annual Chinese celebration in the United States - the Chinese New Year parade and beauty pageant in San Francisco - opens a window onto the evolution of one Chinese American community over the second half of the 20th century.
Description based on print version record.
Chinese New Year
Chinese Americans
Chinese New Year
Chinese Americans
Anthropology
Social Sciences
Manners & Customs